Seth leaves, and Reacher manages to lure his two Cornhusker guards downstairs, where he subdues them, as well as two others when they arrive for breakfast. The last two Cornhuskers standing arrive next. One of them is the one who broke Reacher's nose. The other is John, which disappoints Reacher. Reacher forces the Cornhusker who broke his nose to immobilize John with duct tape. Reacher then challenges the Cornhusker to a fight, which Reacher wins easily, breaking the Cornhusker's nose in the process. The Italians kill the final Iranian as he interrogates the Duncans (having concluded that they murdered his partner after finding him in Seth's car) and leave to collect Reacher. After getting frustrated and stopping at Vincent's inn for the night, they are lured outside and killed by Reacher. Chapter 3 examines our current culture and the effect it has on our views of and approach to Death. Time has a purpose. The meaning of a sentence becomes clear when we put a period at the end of it. The same applies to life. When we talk about things worth dying for, we're really talking about the things worth living for, the things that give life beauty and meaning. Thinking a little about our mortality puts the world in perspective. It helps us see what matters, and also the foolishness of things that, finally, don't matter.This was a good series of reflections on big questions of life (and death) written by Archbishop Charles Chaput after his resignation upon turning 75 was accepted by Pope Francis. He gives us the benefit of his years of experience as he comes close to the end of his own life.

A word of warning: The following review may contain spoilers. It's almost unavoidable, given the real subject matter, which Lee Child manages to keep hidden until about p. 312. Seriously, if you haven't read this book and actually want to in the near or distant future, I would advise you NOT to read this review, as I will almost certainly be giving away some vital plot points. Sorry. Move along...**** Abp. Chaput is a joy to read. Insightful, erudite, but plain-spoken. I cannot sum up the book better than the author does at the end of Chapter 1: "Chapter 2 speaks to how we should think about death and the verdict it passes on the lives we live. Chapter 3 examines the culture we have now -- a culture of irony soured into cynicism, a culture of deriding and refusing the questions that death raises, and the desert of meaning that results. Chapter 4 is about the Author of our lives, the true God and the source of meaning, and our chronic temptation to evade him. Chapters 5 through 8 examine the things -- sometimes ennobling, sometimes idolatrous -- that so many of us consider worth livig for and dying for: nation, ideas and ideologies, family and loved ones, and the Church herself. Chapter 9 speaks to the nature of our earthly pilgrimage and the 'four last things' we each inevitably face. And an afterword reflects on friendship: friendship with God and friendship with each other -- the essence of Christina life, and a foretaste of the life to come." Forget Tony Blair's memoirs, for most people the new Lee Child is the most anticipated book of the year. And with good reason... this is Child on fine form ShortlistI’m not saying that the baddies don’t deserve everything that gets dished up to them for they are, without a doubt, truly the lowest form of life, but the killing is just so unrelenting. For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to keep on going, to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that's bearing down on him. If media bias is all you know of this author, definitely read “Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living” by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. The book is an engaging series of essays that reveals the Archbishop as a seeker of truth. While all this is going on Reacher hears about the disappearance of a local young girl twenty-five years ago and decides to find out what happened to her - not so easy while so many people are out to kill him.

ENGLISH: Chapter 1 has the following quote: Fear of martyrdom is the start of an honest appraisal of our own spiritual mediocrity. If death and destruction being served up to the baddies is your thing you are going to love this. If, on the other had, it’s not your thing it’s probably best not to bother.Except they had never had a fight. Not in the sense meant by people paid to fight or die. Pushing and shoving at the schoolyard gate or on the sidewalk outside the soda shop or late at night after a start-of-summer keg party was as far from fighting as two fat guys tossing lame spirals in the park were from the Superbowl. These guys were amateurs, and worse, they were complacent amateurs, accustomed to getting by on bulk and reputation alone. In the real world, they would be dead before they even landed a blow. Utterly compelling... one of Child's best. He keeps up the lightning pace, great writing and punchy one-liners throughout Daily Express So what are we to make of this book? It seems to have covered a lot of ground, and frankly on the surface one chapter sometimes seems disconnected from either the whole or its predecessor. Chaput starts with memory and within the body of the book we hear of the movie Casablanca, we hear of Cistercian monks dying, of scientism, the bureaucratic nation state, the French Revolution, the decline of the modern family, a survey of what people think of the Church, the four last things, and the nature of friendship, all of which is supposed to wrap up into “things worth dying for.” The Archbishop states that the book is “less a methodical argument or work of scholarship, more a collection of thoughts on a theme that seems to grow in importance along with the years” (p. 8-9). Does this book hold together or is it just a rambling of sorts of things the Archbishop wants to get off his chest before he passes? I started Things Worth Dying For on the heels of a Lent already spent with Remember Your Death (Memento Mori): A Lenten Devotional, so you could say ‘death’ was a familiar topic even before beginning the Archbishop’s book. After six weeks reflection on my ultimate demise, I wondered what else there was to be said. Let me say upfront that whatever I have to offer by way of solitary insight on this marvelous book, it will only be the thoughts of one reader. If you want to ‘go deeper’, there is an excellent and dedicated group over at Catholic Thought and they have done a chapter-by-chapter group examination of Things Worth Dying For which offers in-depth insights from the perspective of some extremely intelligent and faithful Catholic readers and writers.